Perfect Blots
“A coordinated review of the cited publications and underlying data is currently underway” – Hiroki Kuniyasu
Tag: Sholto David
Scientific Reports 2025: A Year in Review
“In this blog I write about papers published by Scientific Reports in 2025, so we could consider it to be a sort of “wrap-up” of highlights and special achievements in the world’s biggest scientific journal™ in 2025.” – Sholto David
Schneider Shorts 19.12.2025 – Merry Christmas!
Schneider Shorts 19.12.2025- sleuth wins reward in a lawsuit, an Italian cheater can’t stop lying, with retractions for failed and failing science elites, a Nature expert investigation, and US scholars escaping with corrections.
Luck in Sight
“It seems hard to accept any explanation that doesn’t somehow incriminate most of the people involved” – Sholto David
One Decade of For Better Science
Inclusive: For Better Science is 10 years old!
In Bad Company
“Authors thank the members of NeuroDigitech for their contribution to data generation, and all the animals that contributed to these studies.”
Fraud by Thousand Needles
” I can’t even begin to imagine the psychological damage of joining a lab as a new postgrad student and having people like Ryan F. Donelly as your supervisor and Andi as the postdoc, it must be heartbreaking. ” – Sholto David
Shocked, angered and appalled
“I have been following the comments on PubPeer, and have been shocked, angered and appalled by the issues […] there can be no explanation for this other than systemic fraud “- Prof Gareth Williams, UCL
Comet Hunting
“if you can solve a captcha you should be able to identify fabricated comet assay images. If you can’t, you can absolutely sit this one out, Springer Nature probably has a job for you instead.”- Sholto David
Tannapfel, a German success story
The papers are old, raw data unavailable, one can see small differences, some students probably did it, and anyway, conclusions are unaffected.
For Better Science 